Development - Consulting

Our Services in Consulting

MISSION STATEMENT AND STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT

For a company to reach the crest of economic success, it is essential to have well-defined objectives and fundamental knowledge as well as a well-thought-out route. We are firmly convinced that people can only succeed when they are communicatively guided by management. Mission statement and strategy are core guidelines for everyday life and help your staff improve the decision-making process.

ISG OFFERS SUPPORT IN THE SYSTEMIC DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF

Visionary aspects

Mission Statement

Management guidelines

Functional guidelines

Strategic orientation and focus of departmental units and the business as a whole

Market position and strategies

METHODS

Workshop moderation

Open space architecture

Impulse presentation

Inter-relation of creative and presentation techniques

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Securing your company’s future also means identifying high potentials and developing their leadership skills required for future cross-functional key positions. The development and implementation of tools, techniques and trends as well as networks of exchange enhance motivations and strengthen identification with a company. In times of constant change these things are the pillars on which a company’s future can be built.

WE OFFER MADE-TO-MEASURE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT SERVICES:

Identifying the skills required from senior staff

Stressing the need for support and backing of senior level management

Designing the selection process; identifying high potentials by

Determining the training and development requirements of potential successors

Nomination

Behaviour-oriented interviews

Assessment center

Etc.

Designing the learning architecture using various modules and methods (monitored by in-house and external advisors). These include

Strategy and Change seminars

Workshops regarding the exchange of experiences, discussing various topics relevant to daily business life

Individual training programs implementing the skills necessary

Working on projects relevant to the respective fields of activity, implementation at operational level

Definition of progress and designing supplementary exercises

We make available our experience of many years in human development services in a variety of areas of business and countries. In co-operation with your in-house experts and external partners, we offer support services in designing comprehensive and specialized made-to-measure training programs.

SUCCESSION PLANNING AND TRAINING

Succession planning and identification of high potentials within your business is essential for tackling future challenges, thus providing the means to fill vacancies internally and furthering existing potentials. By creating made-to-measure development and vocational training programs modelled to the needs of your corporate profile, you secure the long-term development of junior executives.

WE OFFER SUPPORT IN DEVELOPING INDIVIDUAL SUCCESSION PLANNING AND TRAINING PROGRAMS:

Identifying the skills required from junior executives

Stressing the need for support and backing of senior level management

Designing the selection process; identifying high potentials by

Nomination

Behavior-oriented interviews

Assessment center

Determining the training and development requirements of potential successors

Designing the learning architecture using various modules and methods (monitored by in-house and external advisors).

These include

Leadership and communication trainings

Workshops regarding the exchange of experiences, discussing various topics relevant to daily business life

Practicing newly acquired skills

Individual training programs implementing these skills

Working on projects relevant to the respective fields of activity, implementation at operational level

Post-project-evaluation in order to appreciate individual progress and the effect of the program as a whole.

We make our many years of experience in human development services available in a variety of areas of business and countries. In co-operation with your in-house experts and external partners, we offer support services in designing comprehensive and specialized made-to-measure training programs.

EXPERT'S PROGRAM

Know-How is becoming more important in today’s globalized and dynamic business world and poses among other things a decisive competitive factor for your company. Therefore, it is even more important to foster and further develop those possessing know-how within your company in the form of an Experts‘ Program with the goal of offering your experts an alternative career as well as further personal development towards a leadership career in order to bind them to your company long term and to secure that specialized and expert know-how within your company.

In the Experts? Program, the focus is on the personality development of your experts because they not only have the duty of defining and covering the specific needs for knowledge in your company but also have to be able to process their "deep" knowledge and sell it or pass it on to internal and external customers.

WE WILL SUPPORT YOU IN DEVELOPING YOUR OWN INDIVIDUAL EXPERTS' PROGRAM:

Defining the requirements for your experts

Developing career perspectives for your experts

Clearly defining and setting boundaries for understanding the role of the manager and the expert

Identifying your decision and opinion leaders within the program, including defining a sponsor

Designing a selection process for identifying those possessing internal know-how such as, for example:

Nomination by the immediate manager

Behavior-oriented interviews, including testing of professional know-how

Development Center (also determines at the same time the locations of the participants for determining their fields of learning)

Designing of the training program with various modules and methods (accompanied both internally and externally) such as, for example:

Personality Development Seminars

Training Sessions to practice intensively what has been"newly learned"

Workshops as well as "Expert Round Tables" to exchange experiences and to reflect on relevant internal company and professional topics

One on one coaching sessions to support participants with the implementation in their company environment

Collaboration on and/or Leading of company-relevant projects so that what has been learned can be applied in the company environment

Determination of location and definitioin of follow-up activities

We place at your disposal our long-term experience from personnel development programs in various sectors as well as countries. We will support you not only in the complete design of a program that fits your needs but also in sub-areas in cooperation with your internal resources or other external partners.

HIGH POTENTIAL AND TALENT PROGRAM

Both a high potential and a talented individual are identified by above-average aptitude, very goodperformance and "potential for more," whereby in the last case, a management career may not necessarily be desired but potential and talent for a professional or expert career may be present.

Nonetheless, the promotion and further development of your internal candidates with potential is the central focus of a high potenial and talent program, whereby you personally can secure the future of your company by building up your future managers and experts.

WE WILL SUPPORT YOU IN DEVELOPING YOUR INDIVIDUAL HIGH POTENTIAL OR TALENT PROGRAM:

Defining the requirements for your high potentials and talents

Identifying your decision and opinion makers with the program, including defining a sponsor

Design of the selection process for identifying those with potential and talent such as, for example:

Nomination by the immediate manager

Structured, behavior-oriented interviews

Assessment Center, including psychological testing (also determines at the same time the locations of the participants for determining their fields of learning)

Design of the learning architecture with various modules and methods (accompanied internally and externally) such as, for example:

Personality development seminars

Workshops as well as group coaching sessions for exchanging experiences together and preparing company-internal topics

Training sessions to intensively practice what has been "newly learned

One on one coaching sessions to support participants in implementing this in the company environment

Company-relevant projects to apply what has been learned in the company environment

Determination of location following the program to make participants conscious of their individual learning successes as well as an educational check on the entire program.

We place at your disposal our long-term experience from personnel development programs in various sectors as well as countries. We will support you not only in the complete design of an education program that fits your needs but also in sub-areas in cooperation with your internal resources or other external partners.

APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM

Offering young people a secure future through a comprehensive professional as well as personal training and at the same time while doing so, securing the professionals and managers of tomorrow, this is the great challenge of an apprenticeship program.

WE WILL SUPPORT YOU IN DEVELOPING YOUR INDIVIDUAL APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM:

Advising about apprenticeship needs analysis tailored to your company

Defining the requirements for your your apprentices as well as future professionals and managers

Support in personnel marketing

Definition oft he search and selection strategy through:

Professional advertising design and optimal media mix

Selection of candidates as well as conducting of interviews

Assessment Center, including psychological testing

Development of a mentoring or sponsor program, including training of mentors

Design of an Apprentices? Academy with various modules and methods (accompanied both internally and externally) such as, for example:

Training on the job

Job rotation and stays abroad

Seminars on professional topics

Seminars on personality development topics

Training sessions to intensively practice what has been „newly learned“

If necessary, conception of an apprenticeship trainers‘ academy with accompanying internal and external methods such as, for example:

Seminars on professional topics

Seminars on peronality development topics

Training sessions to practice intensively what has been "newly learned"

Workshops and group coaching sessions for exchanging experiences

One on one coaching sessions to support the trainers with ways of looking at individual problems and situations

Gradation and location selection for apprentices to define their further career path in your company

We place at your disposal our long-term experience from personnel development programs in various sectors as well as countries. We will support you in designing your entire apprenticeship program, from needs analysis to the gradation of your future professional specialists and managers.

TRAINEE PROGRAMS

To perform highly every business requires the savviest people. We offer recruiting services that include finding high potentials for key positions and developing top-of-the-range strategies to win over the best graduates. Trainee programs basically represent a win-win situation for all parties: trainees are offered the perfect steppingstone towards a promising career while your company profits by sponsoring and advancing young potentials.

OUR SERVICES INCLUDE THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPECIALIZED TRAINEE PROGRAMS:

definition of skills required by your prospective specialists and executives

support in the area of HR marketing and access to academic networks

definition of recruitment and selection strategies:

professional design of job advertisements and optimal media mix

selection of applicants and job interviews

assessment center and psychological test

Choosing the trainee’s mentors

Designing the learning architecture using various modules and methods (monitored by in-house and external advisors). These include

on-the-job training

job rotation, stays abroad

seminars on specialised relevant topics

seminars on character-forming topics

practicing newly acquired skills

graduation and description of individual progress defining further possible career paths in your company

We make our many years of experience in human development services in a variety of areas of business and countries. We give support designing trainee programs – from recruiting to graduation of prospective potentials.

DESIGN AND MONITORING OF CHANGE PROCESSE

Markets are changing rapidly, resources are scarce, qualified employees are becoming increasingly difficult to find in the labor market, new technologies offer opportunities if you use your staff well ... - We live in a period of continuous change and the pace is accelerating. In many cases employees can no longer keep up with the pace of change. Therefore it is crucial to change the way changes are implemented. We need independent employees with initiative who do not "bear" change but rather shape it.

We support you in the design and implementation of change projects:

EXAMPLES OF TYPICAL CHANGE PROJECTS:

Cultural Change – Establishing attitudes in the organization that are essential for business success (e.g., an orientation of productivity, flexibility, teamwork)

Restructuring of the organizational structure in combination with personnel rearrangements

Establishing a modern understanding of leadership

OUR SERVICES:

Design of change processes (master plan)

Selection of change ambassadors or of a change team

Monitoring the process and expert support for the internal project manager

Facilitation of workshops and events

Implementation of large group methods such as open space

Support in securing the sustainability of achieved changes

DESIGN OF PERFORMANCE BASED REMUNERATION SYSTEMS

The implementation of performance based remuneration systems is a sensitve topic and demands careful planning and an open communication strategy. Even then it can happen, that during the implementation period the performance is decreasing, but afterwards it is recovering again.

It is important to differentiate between different target groups:

Top management

Middle management

Lower management

Dependent on the target group, the calculation method and the legal setup can vary. The range lasts from simple shemes of provision till complex forms of stock options or virtual company participations (e.g. in not public listed companies where no real change in ownership is intended).